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Public Works Administration (PWA)
This was a large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. It was created by the National Industrial Recovery Act in June 1933 in response to the Great Depression. -
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New Deal Policies
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Emergency Banking Relief Act
The law was one of the first acts of the new administration and was designed to repair the nation's crumbling bank system. -
Civilization Conservation Corp (CCC)
This was established to relieve unemployment during the Great Depression by providing national conservation work primarily for young unmarried men. -
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
This was a grant-making agency authorized to distribute federal aid to the states for relief. -
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
The law offered farmers subsidies in exchange for limiting their production of certain crops. The subsidies were meant to limit overproduction so that crop prices could increase. -
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Meant to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley, -
Home Owner's Refinancing Act
Was passed as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal during the Great Depression to help those in danger of losing their homes. -
Steagall Banking Reform Act (FDIC)
It separated commercial banking from investment banking and created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, among other things. -
The National Industrial Recovery Act
A US labor law and consumer law passed by the US Congress to authorize the President to regulate industry for fair wages and prices that would stimulate economic recovery. -
Civil Works Administration (CWA)
A short-lived job creation program established by the New Deal during the Great Depression in the United States to rapidly create mostly manual-labor jobs for millions of unemployed workers.
